One House Survived a Flood. What It Teaches Us About AI Security

In August 2026, a flash flood swept through the Trishuli River valley in Nepal. One 40-year-old house in Dhunge Bazaar was still standing. Its owner credits a deep, careful foundation. The same is true for cybersecurity. In the AI and agentic era, attacks arrive like a tsunami, at machine speed. The biggest building is not the safest. The deepest foundation is. Foundation: identity and least privilege, encryption and secrets, data classification, tested backups, telemetry. Architecture: zero-tru